Bottle from Beer Shop Folkestone and drunk at home. This should be right up my alley. Slight haze pale brown amber colour thin off white head. Authentic funky aroma. Clearly a lambic. Aged hops. Proper funk. Its then an amber malty beer over the top. Does the blend of 2 beer styles work? Yes. Some malt sweetness. Yes really interesting. Very drinkable. Funk and then an amber beer. Sour and hop finish. Decent enough.

0,375l bottle at home. Bottled 03. April 2025. Amber lightly hazy color, small white head. smells spices, peppery, bit funky, herbal. Decent smell, bit weird. full body, soft carbonation. tastes peppery, earthy, citric, toffee, Brett, tobacco, bit herbal. finishes lightly dry and lightly sour with notes of brett, earthy and peppery notes. Drinkable one, not overly exciting though

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Saison by Senne - I assume brewed especially for the occasion - blended with Cantillon lambic, referring to the old Belgian tradition of 'versnijbier' or, in French, 'bière de coupage'; created for this year's Quintessence, a prestigious biennial event held by Cantillon. Medium thick, off-white, busily lacing (in 'arches'), tiny-bubbled and densely structured, fairly stable head on a misty warm orangey peach blonde robe with brownish-amber tinge, turning more cloudy and ochre with sediment. Aroma of bread crust, soggy rusk, dried grapefruit peel, hints of passata and fried tomato skin, old dried wormwood leaves, tellicherry pepper, cold pumpkin soup, vague wood in the background, dried dandelion, something very faintly smoky (burnt hay), old wrinkled autumn apples, vague clove. Estery onset, dryish though, hinting at dried apple, unripe peach and dried lingonberries, minerally carbonated with this minerality persisting till the end; smooth bready maltiness, bread crust, rusk and vague biscuit, indeed soured by the lambic, with adds not only a thinly lemon-ish tartness and sour grape-like vinosity, but also glimpses of Brettanomyces funk (wet leather, damp hay) and woodiness. Spicy elements here and there, as in white pepper, clove and dandelion, eventually merge with a rooty, long, resinous wormwoody and somewhat grapefruity hop bitterness. Most 'historical' coupage beers combined a dark ale (dubbel) with lambic to create something oud bruin-like, but this belongs more to a Brussels tradition Senne is so skilled at, adding a certain fraîcheur and citric tartness to a spicy, earthy, bitter saison; the lambic does not overpower, though, making me wonder what its Brett will do to this blend after a year or two of cellaring. In this relatively young form, it is more Senne than Cantillon, but the latter is certainly present and the two combined make for a sturdy, dry yet elegant and quenching saison of sorts.

Good bit of funk, a bit yeasty. Never had a collab from Cantillon before!

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